George Cuscaden – Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society

Now and Then 2021 – Corner Bay and Spring Streets

Port Melbourne HistoryAugust 2, 2021

Bay Street at Spring Street (2021). Photo: David Thompson, PMHPS Collection. Bay Street has always been both a route and a destination. Vehicles now, as then, travel north and south, but in 1840 it was no more than a dusty track leading to Melbourne. Port Melbourne Town Hall (1883). City of Port Phillip Collection. By 1900 it was a broad thoroughfare lined…

An Exciting Incident

Port Melbourne HistoryApril 3, 2020

by David Radcliffe On Saturday evening, 7th February 1903 a series of robberies took place in Esplanade East followed by a high speed chase down Spring Street East culminating in a dangerous collision with a cable drawn tram in Bay Street opposite the Town Hall. The unfolding drama was captured by an unnamed staff reporter at the Argus under the headline An Exciting…

Cambridge Street

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 4, 2019

Cambridge Street (highlighted). MMBW Map, 1894 Passers-by today would find it difficult to identify the street highlighted in the above 1894 MMBW map. That's because it doesn't exist, although that is not strictly true. Part of the street is still there but it no longer intersects with Farrell Street. This is Cambridge Street. The origins of the name are unknown, but…

Sir George Cuscaden

Home Front Stories, WWI CentenaryAugust 26, 2014

Sir George Cuscaden by Walter Stoneman, bromide print, 1923. Used with permission from National Portrait Gallery, London under the Creative Commons Licence. George Cuscaden was born in Wexford, Ireland, the third son of William H Cuscaden, on 31 December 1857. He studied at Dublin University, Edinburgh University and in London attaining medical qualifications which led him to a position as ship's surgeon with…

Now and Then 2021 – Corner Bay and Spring Streets

An Exciting Incident

Cambridge Street

Sir George Cuscaden

Acknowledgement of Traditional Custodians